Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-09-09
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER o, 1857.
The Soldiers and the President

The Soldiers and the President.
On the evening of September first
Custer Post, G. A. r. met at Omaha
and passed the following resolution:
Resolred-By the post, as soldiers
and citizens, that we kindly request
that the citizens of this city, in the
decoration of this city for the coming
reunion, exhibit the portraits only OF
those persons who showed their patri-
otism by taking an active part in the
war for the preservation of the great
Union. Let the old soldiers see only
the faces of those persons that led
them in the smoke of battle.
Wednesday the parade took place,
and portrait of Mr.. Cleveland was
hung across the street. In order to
avoid serious disturbance, probably,
it was removed by the consideration
of those who had hung it up.
Mr.. Foraker is nominated by the
Republican party in Ohio, as their
candidate for Governor. At politi-
cal meeting the other day-and, in
deed, at meetings almost daily, this
man is pouring forth unstinted
walls of vituperation upon the Presi-
dent and upon the entire Democratic
party. In that State his party is just
able to hold itself in power and there
fore must contain hundreds of thou
sand of citizens who are Democrats.
These Mr.. Foraker punches in class
as "The rebel brigade Confederates
and dirty Democrats" Waving the
fact that Ohio sent forth many patri-
otic sons who ranked themselves as
Democrats, to fight for the Union in
the recent internecine war, and pre-
suming for the sake of argument that
Mr.. Foraker was speaking of Missis-
sippi or South Carolina, it is mani
testify improper that he should so
befoul his lips as to speak of
a large and respectable body
of citizens in such scurrilous
terms. AS to the "Rebel Brigade
Confederates, it should be sufficient
to remark that it is above a score of
years since the last gun was fired in
the lamentable civil war. The Union
is restored, y and no people in
the land accept its results, SO
far as this restoration of the Union
is concerned, more cordially than
the men who, with honest purpose,
whether right or wrong, took issue on
the Confederate side. These men,
with few exceptions, rejoice in their
present position as devoted citizens of
the Great American Republic. They
are busily engaged in the works of
peace, developing the rich re-
sources of their sections, and it
would be in better taste, as we'll
as in better sense, for men
like Foraker to accept with them these
results of the war, and with them to
enjoy the fruits of their peaceful avo-
cations.
As to the term "Dirty Democrats"
what does Mr.. Foraker mean? Surely
not that the men who compose this
great National party are less accus-
toned to the use of the bath-tub and
CASTLE soap than the members of his
own party. He cannot mean that as
a class they patronize the laundries
less than their equal fellow citizens.
Nor can this stump orator with such
elegant phraseology on his lips intend
to infer that they are vile of speech as
compared with himself, for example
and lie carries the banner of his party.
Mr.. Foraker could not go through
the streets Of his own city and pick
out the members of the two parties on
election day by their finger nails,
their linen, their speech-unless all
Republicans in Ohio use the Foraker
vocabulary, in which case they could
be readily identified. Nor in spite OF
all the stale jokes Of the flavor of
very musty "chestnuts" about Demo-
Gratis and whisky, could Mr.. Foraker
tell what ticket man is voting by the
smell of his breath. Any sensible
American should cover his face in
shame who could SO far forget himself
and the dignity which attaches to
American citizenship as to refer to one
full moiety of the nation as "Dirty
Democrats" Poorly must the man be
furnished with mother wit, and weak
must be his cause who has to forsake
sound logic, over dispassionate dis
cussion of important public affairs,
and as Hamlet says:
'sUnpack his heart like bawd."
Then,-to return to the soldiers
there is the episode in st. Louis where
the hot-headed fool introduced that